Hanson‘s health care power play

ONE Nation leader Pauline Hanson looks set flex her new power in the Senate by holding the government to ransom over its plan to raise the Medicare levy to fund the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

Senator Hanson now has the power to block government legislation if three One Nation senators vote with the Greens and Labor in the upper house against the Coalition after the Nick Xenophon Team's voting power was reduced in the fallout from the citizenship saga.

The Senator has told Fairfax Media she remains in negotiations with the government over the legislation but said she "made it very clear" she had "concerns with the system".